welcome to Silently Into The Night
Hello and welcome! We are a modern-day reincarnation AU of the novel/donghua/drama Mó Dào Zǔ Shī, also known as Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Chén Qíng Lìng, or The Untamed. The characters have been reincarnated into modern day, where some have regained their memories of their cultivation days, while others have not yet. Original characters are accepted, but please have a good story for them if they were a cultivator in their past life. The RP takes place in Palo Alto, California, and is set in the current year.
Modern Reincarnation AU
silently into the night redeim
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updates
JULY 07, 2020
And we're officially open! Feel free to leave questions or chat with us in the cbox. :)
JULY 06, 2020
Soft opening of the site!
(Re)Introductions (Meng Yao, Xichen)
Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Aug 9, 2020 22:22:50 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Aug 9, 2020 22:22:50 GMT -8
Meng Yao held his hands up, "I did not know who he was to you at that point. He was just a random guy I was flirting with and trying to embarrass. Only after that whole ordeal did you mention Xichen's name. I swear."
Meng Yao was happy that Mingjue didn't actually appear to be upset with him. He'd been pretty up front with both of them regarding his nature, so it really shouldn't have been a surprise.
"And Xichen," he made the "I'm watching you" gesture and said, "I'm gonna come looking for that answer at some point," he smirked.
"Mingjue-ge, you have to admit, the thought of Xichen in a strip club is funny, right?" he asked.
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Lan Xichen
MDZS Character
Yes
Homosexual
single
Redeim
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Aug 9, 2020 22:47:32 GMT -8
Post by Lan Xichen on Aug 9, 2020 22:47:32 GMT -8
Xichen appreciated the comforting hand on his shoulder and spared a glance at Mingjue, giving him a nod. "I'm fine. It was just... shocking." He told his friend.
He sneered at Meng Yao, but still didn't say anything. He returned to hiding his face, poking at his food to distract himself from the conversation.
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Aug 9, 2020 23:24:14 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Aug 9, 2020 23:24:14 GMT -8
Mingjue sighed and said, voice full of big brother tones, "Yes and no, this sort of thing is why I said to play nice earlier, though obviously my warning was too late. I don't find making Xichen uncomfortable or unsettled to have been particularly funny. At the same time, I understand why it was funny to you at least at some level though, and I'm not mad or particularly surprised, but I hope that in the future, maybe you'll realize that this could have been more upsetting or awkward than it was."
He caught the way that Xichen looked at Meng Yao, and worried that he'd have to actually arbitrate this. He wanted them to get along, and he'd seen a glimmer of that when they'd been teasing him together. He sighed and said, "Perhaps I should guide us back to our regularly scheduled teasing of Mingjue hours. That was easier somehow."
He gave a gentle stroke to Xichen's shoulder, hoping that Xichen was willing to give Meng Yao a chance, but still feeling protective of his best friend who did seem a bit rattled. He hoped that Meng Yao would understand where he was coming from.
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Aug 9, 2020 23:36:09 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Aug 9, 2020 23:36:09 GMT -8
"Fine, fine," Meng Yao surrendered. He could tell Mingjue was reading Xichen's mood as upset, but Meng Yao wasn't entirely sure that was the case, but he decided to stop pushing all the same.
"I thought I was the only one who kept such hours," he pointed to Xichen, "you tease him too?"
"Wait, do you have pictures of you when you both had long hair? I need to see this!" He looked to Mingjue, eyes wide and innocent looking, "it's be great fuel for my regularly scheduled hours."
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Lan Xichen
MDZS Character
Yes
Homosexual
single
Redeim
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Aug 9, 2020 23:44:34 GMT -8
Post by Lan Xichen on Aug 9, 2020 23:44:34 GMT -8
Xichen patted Mingjue's arm, muttering to him, "It's okay. I'm fine." He reassured him. Still, he was relieved at the change in subject, and let out a laugh both at Mingjue's insistence on teasing him instead and Meng Yao's sudden excitement. "I mean, I'm not as mean as you, but I have teased him before if that's what you're asking." He replied simply.
He pulled out his phone and searched through his pictures until he found one taken back in high school. "I mean, the most embarrassing thing is probably the quality of the photo, but if you really think it would be funny, here..." He said hesitantly, holding his phone out for Meng Yao to see the picture. It was weird to look at now, not because he was embarrassed by it, but because he felt like he and Mingjue looked totally different now.
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Aug 9, 2020 23:54:44 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Aug 9, 2020 23:54:44 GMT -8
Mingjue stood from the table and went over to the mantle, saying, "There's a better option for this than a horrible old cell phone picture."
He took a framed photo from the mantle of both of them in suits, their hair long, Xichen's mostly loose and Mingue's with a pair of braids going back from his temples and the rest of it falling down behind his shoulders.
He placed it in front of Meng Yao and said, "Xichen insisted that I had to go to my senior prom for the experience, and I agreed on the condition that he come with me and be the one to talk to humans. The picture turned out well even if when I look at it now we look so young."
It was a fond memory though of spending a late night with Xichen and watching his friend get progressively less coherent and progressively more sweet as it got well past his bedtime.
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Aug 9, 2020 23:59:38 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Aug 9, 2020 23:59:38 GMT -8
Meng Yao scooted closer to Xichen, trying to see the cell phone picture, "gosh that's terrible quality," he said, perking up when Mingjue brought the framed one over.
"So you were each other's prom dates, that's sweet," he said. He hadn't meant this in any sort of teasing manner, if he had, it would have included the fact that both men currently had crushes on each other and didn't seem to know. It was... what's that word again? Oh yeah, adorable.
"You're hair was almost as long as mine," he mused.
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Lan Xichen
MDZS Character
Yes
Homosexual
single
Redeim
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Aug 15, 2020 11:26:56 GMT -8
Post by Lan Xichen on Aug 15, 2020 11:26:56 GMT -8
Xichen smiled, looking down at the table. "Right, I forgot about that one..." He said quietly. He had a copy back in his room at home, maybe he could take a picture of that to have a better quality photo of himself and Mingjue with long hair.
"It was fun, or well, at least I had fun. Though if I remember correctly, Mingjue," he looked over to his friend, "said he had a good time too." He said simply, glancing at the picture and then to Meng Yao.
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Aug 15, 2020 13:47:13 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Aug 15, 2020 13:47:13 GMT -8
Mingjue nodded and said, "It was right about waist length, though this was after the first time that I got it cut other than Huaisang's mom trimming it. It was about the same length as yours for a long time. I usually braided it just to keep it out of the way."
He sighed and added, "Prom was an experience. I'm glad I went, but the music was loud and not stuff that I particularly enjoyed, and a lot of our classmates were being extremely stupid. But I am glad I went with Xichen all the same. Parts of it were definitely fun."
He didn't quite know what to do with the part about them having been each other's prom dates being cute. He was pretty sure that Xichen had been worried that he was going to disappear after high school even though he was going to Stanford, and he had been incredibly attached to his friend because Xichen had been his only actual close friend who got things with his brother and actually liked his brother. They'd introduced their younger siblings to each other and everything, which had made Xichen doing things like picking Huaisang up from school infinitely easier just a few years later.
He laughed and added, "Prom definitely went far past Xichen's bedtime at that age. He's much better at staying up late now."
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Aug 15, 2020 14:35:42 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Aug 15, 2020 14:35:42 GMT -8
Meng Yao nodded and passed the picture back to Mingjue, "thanks for showing me," he said.
He was having to bite his tongue more often than not. Teasing Xichen was too easy, he particularly wanted to talk about keeping him up past his bedtime, but had already been properly admonished for his earlier teasing so he didn't go there again.
As for Mingjue, the way he talked about prom was on the nose for his personality. It wasn't something that interested him so it was "an experience." "You've told me something was an experience too, when I gave you a manicure. I'm starting to translate that as, 'it was new, so I guess it's good that I tried it, but I will not be doing that again,'" he teased.
"Sorry, teasing is in my nature, you have to let me get away with something," Meng Yao said, sticking out his tongue.
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Lan Xichen
MDZS Character
Yes
Homosexual
single
Redeim
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Aug 17, 2020 14:49:00 GMT -8
Post by Lan Xichen on Aug 17, 2020 14:49:00 GMT -8
Xichen let out a short chuckle as Mingjue mentioned prom going past his bedtime, nodding. "Indeed it did..." He muttered. He looked up when Meng Yao mentioned giving Mingjue a manicure, an amused sparkle in his eyes though his eyebrows furrowed with curiosity, "You've gotten a manicure?" He asked, voice light. "You never told me that." He felt a little less bad about keeping quiet about what happened during his and Meng Yao's second meeting if Mingjue had also had experiences with him that hadn't been mentioned.
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Aug 17, 2020 16:11:09 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Aug 17, 2020 16:11:09 GMT -8
Mingjue contemplated Meng Yao's reply seriously for a moment and then said, "I think that it is closer to, I am uncertain I would be interested in trying that or a similar experience again, but I am too unsettled by the newness of it to know for sure when said at the time or right after the event. You are correct in your judgement of what I mean about prom though. I am not particularly a fan of parties outside of small groups of friends. I make myself conspicuously scarce any time Huaisang wants to hold one, though that's partially just because I don't think that he'd fully appreciate his big brother hovering over a party."
Mingjue blinked a few times at Xichen's comment and said, "I guess that I didn't tell you. It was the first time that I went over to help Meng Yao work on the car. I brought dumplings, which I think that I did tell you. I am still not entirely sure what I think about it, but I doubt that I would be comfortable at all going and getting one done professionally with someone who was a complete stranger. I would consider trying one with friends again, but I'm on the fence about that."
He thought but didn't say that it seemed more like an activity that Xichen and Meng Yao would enjoy in common since there was a bit of tension between them that he didn't quite understand, yet.
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Meng Yao
MDZS Character
No
Pansexual
SingleAF
Velexa
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Aug 17, 2020 18:08:55 GMT -8
Post by Meng Yao on Aug 17, 2020 18:08:55 GMT -8
Meng Yao quirked an eyebrow when Xichen reacted to the manicure. Apparently Mingjue usually shared everything with him, so this being news to him was a surprise. He bit his tongue, literally, to stop his next teasing comment.
He cleared his throat to cover his groan of frustration for denying his nature so much and said, "I'm more than happy to give manicures. I like doing them, so just let me know and I can bring over the supplies..." He chose his next words carefully, "I'm not against you both coming to my place, I just figured Mingjue's place was more neutral territory." He finished the sentence in his head with a 'seeing as there's no pole here.'
This is what he was going to have to resort to, teasing them mercilessly in his head. He turned to Mingjue, "what can I tease you guys about? Give me something or I'll explode." He was being overdramatic, but only slightly. Teasing was a defense mechanism at times, but it was also how he showed affection, and he was feeling affectionate.
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Lan Xichen
MDZS Character
Yes
Homosexual
single
Redeim
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Aug 17, 2020 19:38:21 GMT -8
Post by Lan Xichen on Aug 17, 2020 19:38:21 GMT -8
Xichen looked to Meng Yao, and then to Mingjue, "I think that sounds like a perfectly fun idea." He said to Meng Yao. "Why must you tease us at all?" He added, tilting his head to one side curiously.
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Nie Mingjue
MDZS Character
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Aug 17, 2020 20:25:51 GMT -8
Post by Nie Mingjue on Aug 17, 2020 20:25:51 GMT -8
Mingjue sighed and said, "Considering I'm in favor of the two of you bonding, I'll accept manicures happening here, though honestly, I may mostly supervise. You may also accidentally summon Huaisang."
He gently rested a hand on Xichen's shoulder, and voice rumbly and amused said, "You heard the man, apparently he'll explode if he has nothing to tease anyone about. I mean, I thought that I gave him something with the prom photo, but perhaps that's insufficient?"
He glanced at Meng Yao, wondering what the man was treading lightly around. He seemed to be avoiding saying something.
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